The copy ability turns this from a fantastic card advantage engine into a finisher
Its a great way to just buff your side of the field, and we love it dearly
ANY MOXEN If Lotus Petal was good enough to make it to the top ten, how good is a reusable Lotus Petal going to be
Pokmon card types Now we get to the good stuff - the 11 distinctive elemental Pokmon card types held by your actual monster cards, which dictate which flavor of Energy cards they need to pull off moves, and which opposing Pokmon cards they'll be strong or weak against
Compare Izzet Phoenix to Storm, a successful archetype in Modern that at times has had a claim to be the best deck and has a similar density of cantrips to Izzet Phoenix
Its difficult to find balance with sweepers, as they have a way of either ending the game on their own or not mattering much at all, with games where they fall somewhere in-between being rarer than either extreme